polaris.mesh.IcosahedralMeshStep

class polaris.mesh.IcosahedralMeshStep(component, name='base_mesh', subdir=None, cell_width=None, subdivisions=None)

A step for creating an icosahedral JIGSAW mesh

Variables

• cell_width (float) – The approximate cell width in km of the mesh if constant resolution

• subdivisions (int) – The number of subdivisions of the icosahedral mesh to perform

__init__(component, name='base_mesh', subdir=None, cell_width=None, subdivisions=None)

Create a new step

Parameters

• component (polaris.Component) – The component the step belongs to

• name (str, optional) – the name of the step

• subdir ({str, None}, optional) – the subdirectory for the step

• cell_width (float, optional) – The approximate cell width in km of the mesh if constant resolution

• subdivisions (int, optional) – The number of subdivisions of the icosahedral mesh to perform

Methods

__init__(component[, name, subdir, ...])	Create a new step
add_dependency(step[, name])	Add step as a dependency of this step (i.e.
add_input_file([filename, target, database, ...])	Add an input file to the step (but not necessarily to the MPAS model).
add_output_file(filename[, validate_vars])	Add the output file that must be produced by this step and may be made available as an input to steps, perhaps in other tasks.
build_subdivisions_cell_width_lat_lon()	A function for creating cell width array for this mesh on a regular latitude-longitude grid.
constrain_resources(available_resources)	Constrain cpus_per_task and ntasks based on the number of cores available to this step
get_cell_width(subdivisions)	Get the approximate cell width for an icosahedral mesh given either a number of subdivisions of the icosahedron.
get_subdivisions(cell_width)	Find the number of subdivisions of an icosahedron to achieve a resolution as close as possible to cell_width.
make_jigsaw_mesh(subdivisions)	Make the JIGSAW mesh.
process_inputs_and_outputs()	Process the inputs to and outputs from a step added with polaris.Step.add_input_file() and polaris.Step.add_output_file().
run()	Run this step of the task
runtime_setup()	Update attributes of the step at runtime before calling the run() method.
save_and_plot_cell_width(lon, lat, cell_width)	Save the cell width field on a lon/lat grid to self.cell_width_filename and plot
set_resources([cpus_per_task, ...])	Update the resources for the subtask.
set_shared_config(config[, link])	Replace the step's config parser with the shared config parser
setup()	Add JIGSAW options based on config options
validate_baselines()	Compare variables between output files in this step and in the same step from a baseline run if one was provided.